The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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BERLIN has technical high shool built by
tue city at cost of S4,SO0OOO and maintained
at a cost of 100000.
QUEEN VICTORIA sent S225 to Mrs. James Lees,
! of Goole who was injured by the explosion of
/ fireworks during the jubilee celebrations.
JOHN w YOUNG, Brigham Young s Oldest son,
is said to be a successful business man and a
shrewd builder of railroads in Utah Territory.
He has only three wives.
NEGRO dropped dead of heart disease while
| playing craps" at Pine Bluff Ark, last week.
| The body was removed and the game proceeded
as II nothing unusual had occurred.
| FARMER who resides within four miles of
! Lincoln, Logan county, H., had never heard of
| the Haymarket riot, nor the trial of the An
archists, up to the day of the execution.
| THE first translation into English of Hebrew
novel viii shortly appear. France first discov-
| cred that there were Hebrew novels worth
translating and has had them for some years.
| THE Alaskan Indian is pre-eminently the dude
of his race He is always clad in handsome furs
| or blankets, and carries walking-stck which
| is often beautiful specimen Of elaborate cary
| ing.
| The man who blows the cornet in a rural
brass band down in Maine is six feet and ten
| inches tall, and the band is looking for a drum
| major that won't look like midget prancing
! IN front of him.
MOSQUITOES in China have very poisonous
| sting In Tientsin hospital there were at one
| time last summer a man with an abscess in his
| face and another with blood poisoning from the
| bite of the insects.
Two FAMILIES occupying the same house, in
| Wallingford, Conn, fought long and bitterly
until the woman on the first floor burned feath-
! ers and cayenne pepper. Then the woman on
the second floor capitulated and moved out.
ONF thousand two hundred and forty divorces
were granted in France in 1885, the first year Of
| the existence of the divorce law in France. The
| last twelve months produce 4SS Parisians d-
vorced, the most being in the rich quarters.
THE proper thing i'll neckwear among the
/ swells of San Antonio, Tex, is a scarf made of
| rattesnake skin, with pin composed of the
snakes rattleS. The skins are prepared
by Texan, who has snake rancho near the
city.
A SEcRETAIRE which cost S175,000 was sold
for $4,000, and this was a specimen of the sac
rifice in the sale of the late King of Bavarias
goods and chattels. No monument has been
raised to his memory. Two planks with cross
upon them mark the spot where the King was
drowned.
BOY employed in a foundry at Smiths
Falls, Canada, filed with powder and iron filings
gas pipe, eighteen inches long, and then ap-
piled a match and caused an explosion which
startled the community, shattered windows,
damaged neighboring buildings. and shook the
boy out of his situation.
AN EXHIBITION of objects of art-paintings,
sculptures, jewelry, bronzes, china, carvings,
etc.-formerly the property of the late King
Louis III. of Bavaria and comprising 1900 num-
bers and representing a value of nearly mil
lion marks, will be exhibited in Stuttgart by
Councillor Ehni 1t is supposed that it will be
offered for sale wholly.
THE sudden application of the air brakes in
stopping freight train at Fresno, Cal, caused
a number of passengers who were in the caboose
to be badly shaken up. One in the lookout house
was thrown through the window and had his
side injured; another had his nose broken and
another an arm hurt. Several others were
bruised, but none seriously.
PRINCE FERDINAND, of Bulgaria, owes the
| Gar such grudge for his continued antago-
nism that he is stated to have cleared out of the
palace at Sofia every single portrait of Ale an
ders l. and H., which had been placed there in
days of Bulgarian friendship. Further,
all Russian books in the public offices have been
suppressed and replaced by Austrian or Polish
works.
In GERMANY the average duration of the life
of gardeners, mariners and fishermen is given
as So years; butchers, "a years; carpenters and
brickayerS, 40 years; Shoemakers and taIlorS,
"A years; compositorS and photographers, al
years, and laborerS, 81 years OF the professions
the average lifetime of cler2ymen is 81 years;
| teachers 81 years; lawyers, 81 years, and ply
sicians, 40 years.
EXTENSIVE PREPARATIONS are being made by
the Presbyterian Board of Indian schools to
educate the Indians of Arizona. At Tucson they
are building an $1,000 school house. Fifty acres
of land have been bought on the Santa Cruz
river, where the young Indians will he instruct
ed in farming, and another building to cost
$1,000 will soon be erected, where $50 pupils can
be Accommodated.
THE Postmaster of Hirwain, Eng, who re
fused to marry widow aged "a, to whom he
was engaged, on account of an exhibition of her
temper shortly before proceeding tothe church.
was early in the morning few days afterward
taken in g brOugham by the villagers to the
church. where he met his bride brought in the
same manner and the knot was tied They
were then drawn home accompanied by large
crowd.
A MAGNIFICENT GIFT has been made to the
Natural History museum, South Kensington, by
Capt Wardlaw Ramsey. The late Marques of
Tweddale had perhaps the finest private col
lection of birds in Great Britain, and had in ad-
diton very valuable pathological library
This collection and the library were bequeathed
to Capt Ramsey, who has assigned the
whole to the nation. together with many rare
pathological specimens obtained by himself in
the far East. The value of this present is
E15,000.
A VERY singular incident was noted in connec-
UlOu VIII IL IeccHb nTo III OdTlJOQ, MlCl.
The building was burning fiercely, but the big
engine which drove the machinery continued to
run all through the blaze, and by that means
was saved from destruction, though there was
not wall standing on either side of it when the
fire had finished. The pumpswere also running
and had kept the boiler supplied, so there could
be no explosion. 1t was peculiar spectacle to
see the engine driving away at slashing speed
in the midst of the flames, but the motion some
how saved it from fire. All the rest of the ma
chinery was total loss.
AMONG the customs peculiar to wedding occa-
sions the ring and bride cake seems to be of the
most remote antiquity. the latter being modern
improvement on the heather practice of using
cake of wheat or barley at a marriage. The
presenting of gifts TO the bride is also of very
old origin, the favorite present in the middle
ages being pot of butter, which was brought
home from church. and which was supposed to
Other bridal gifts peculiar to the olden time
were scarfs end laces, and, what is stranger
still, pair of knives, which it was the fashion
for women to wear sheathed and suspended
from their girdles
THE original DIR. Faustus has been com.
memorated recently with great ceremony at his
asserted birthplace, the little village of Knit
tlingen, in Wurtemberg. This year was the
quatercentenary of Faust's birth and also the
tercentenary of the first publication devoted to
his memory, the first sketch of the life of the
famous sorcerer having appeared at Frankfort
Main in 1857 Knittlingen tradition merely
relates that DR.. FauStuS utilized his rnaDir